News from August 2013
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: DENVER, CO -The National Park Service has selected Xanterra Parks & Resorts, Inc. (Xanterra) to provide a variety of visitor services in Glacier National Park for the next 16 years.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: The public is invited to join park staff in September for two free butterfly programs at Congaree National Park. Sponsored by the park's Old-Growth Bottomland Forest Research and Education Center, the programs are coordinated in partnership with the Carolina Butterfly Society and the North American Butterfly Association (NABA).The upcoming programs engage "citizen scientist" volunteers to help identify and count butterflies in the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Phil Hall, Acting Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that two Guilford women who oversaw a pyramid scheme known as “Gifting Tables" were sentenced today in Hartford federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of mail fraud and tax evasion, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Two health care clinic owners pleaded guilty today in connection with an $8 million health care fraud scheme involving the now-defunct home health care company Flores Home Health Care Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: (DETROIT) - Today, a federal judge ruled in the case of Floyd v. City of New York that the city’s “stop and frisk" policy is unconstitutional. After this ruling, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued the following statement...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: SEOUL - The leader of a human smuggling organization and 21 brothel operators and prostitutes were indicted without detention in South Korea following an investigation by the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency-International Crime Investigation Unit (SMPA-ICIU) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Seoul.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Marblemount, WA - Aug. 13, 2013 - In less than 24 hours after a torrential rain event created a 15 foot deep and 60 foot wide chasm in the popular Cascade River Road, employees of the North Cascades National Park took immediate action, and created a temporary vehicle crossing allowing 70 stranded hikers to drive out of the Cascade Pass trailhead parking lot.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Independence National Historical Park Celebrates 97th Birthday of the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - A home builder from Georgetown, KY., was convicted by a federal jury of fraudulently obtaining more than a million dollars in loans from a Frankfort bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - John Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Field Division and United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced today that a Framingham man pleaded guilty today in federal court in connection to crimes committed while in his official capacity as a Watertown police officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court in Fergus Falls, a 48-year-old Red Lake man was sentenced for assaulting a man with an axe handle. On Aug. 12, 2013, United States District Judge John R. Tunheim sentenced Joseph William Howard, Jr., to 105 months on one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Howard was indicted on Feb. 22, 2012, and pleaded guilty on May 29, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jennifer Owens, a/k/a O and J.O., age 31, of Randallstown, Maryland pleaded guilty today to a racketeering conspiracy for smuggling drugs and other contraband for Tavon White and other member of the Black Guerilla Family (BGF) gang inside several correctional facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Framingham man pleaded guilty today in federal court in connection to crimes committed while in his official capacity as a Watertown police officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces that yesterday a federal jury found Do (39, Bradenton) guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Senior United States District Court Judge Richard G. Kopf sentenced Randy Evans, age 60 of Grand Island, Nebraska, to 5 years of probation, a $50,000.00 fine, and ordered the forfeiture of $32,702.85. In addition, Evans must pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - The results of the August 2013 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James E. Whittemore sentenced James Earl Smiley (41, Tampa) yesterday to 5 years and one month in federal prison for committing stolen identity refund fraud. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $98,719.65, representing the proceeds of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Massachusetts man was charged today with embezzling money from a Veterans Affairs program and identity theft.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today ruled 2-1 that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must resume its consideration of the Department of Energy’s license application for Yucca Mountain. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy...
